The Darjeeling Limited 6.5/10 Saw an advance screening of this last night

It's the Royal Tannenbaums set in India. The Life Aquatic on land. All Wes Anderson movies are the same. If you liked those other movies, you will like Darjeeling too. It's funny but sometimes you get the distinct impression that they are trying too hard to be quirky. Some of it was laugh out loud funny some of it fell flat.

Maybe the best part of the movies was the use of the song Les Champs Elysees - great song.

Ryn reminded me of this documentary that I saw years ago. It's all about the spread of cane toads in Australia. They were brought in to control insects that were infesting sugar cane planations. The experiment went horribly wrong and the toad population went out of control. Plus their poison is a hallucinogen so young Australians took to licking toads. Absolutely hilarious movie. Strongly recommended.

Snakes Gould wrote:watching it, i was very entertained and was thinking how good the film was. even as it ended i was fully satisfied.

It was a little slow at points, but later, that slow speed helped to build suspense wonderfully.

Snakes Gould wrote: but then thinking back, i think about several plot holes or lack of plot, and some things just didnt add up.

I had the same feeling, but then it occurred to me that this was a character-driven movie with a mob plot wrapped around it. The entire plot with the Russian mob was superfluous to the development of Phoenix's character as he transitioned from a carefree partier to a cop.

Snakes Gould wrote: joaquin phoenix was great and wahlberg could have been used more but good performances nonetheless.

Yeah, I was really surprised how quickly Wahlberg was "out" of the movie. He really was a non-character.

Snakes Gould wrote:plus you get to see eva mendes' boob.

Meh. The scene was gratuitous, which always irks me, and her nip looked like a runaway freckle.

Snakes Gould wrote:ill go 8/10.

Going 7/10 here. Worth seeing, but not at the theater.

I wanted to see 30 Days of Night, but my wife thought it looked too gruesome. Plus, it had mixed reviews. If anyone's seen it, I'd like to know what you thought of it.